Annelise B. Hoffman papers
Extent and Medium
box
oversize folders
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Annelise Hoffman
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Annelise B. Hoffman's parents, Ernst Bernhardt and Ella Moses Bernhardt, collected the correspondence, affidavits, and photographs from their children and other relatives during the years after the family's emigration to the United States (circa 1936-1940). Annelise B. Hoffman obtained the entire collection at the time of her mother's death in Jan. 1959. Hoffman donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Dec. 1998.
Scope and Content
Contains diplomas, certificates, correspondence, support affidavits, genealogical data and family trees, photographs, and a scrapbook relating to the experiences of the Bernhardt family, Ernst, Ella, and their children Erika, Annelise, and Hans, of Berlin, Germany, during the early years of the Third Reich and their process of emigration to the United States. The collection also contains several photographs and letters relating to Ella Moses Bernhardt's mother, Ida Moses, who perished in Theresienstadt during the Holocaust. The materials in the collection range in date from 1905 to1998. The bulk of the materials date from circa 1938 to 1942. The scrapbook, compiled during the 1980s, contains photographs dating as early as the 1870s.
System of Arrangement
Organized in the following order: 1. Bernhardt, Hoffman, and Moses family scrapbook, ca. 1980; 2. Diplomas, certificates, and other official documents for Ernst Bernhardt, 1905-1940; 3. Affidavits of support for Bernhardt family members, 1938-1939; 4. Correspondence, 1938-1942; 5. Bernhardt and Hoffman family genealogical information, ca. 1980-1998; 6. Miscellaneous photographs, 1930s-1960s
People
- Bernhardt, Else.
- Bernhardt family.
- Thews, Hermann.
- Moses, Adolph.
- Bernhardt, Ella Moses, 1886-1959.
- Bernhardt, Ernst, 1884-1946.
- Hoffman, Annelise B., 1916-
- Thews, Erika Bernhardt, 1912-1969.
- Moses, Ida.
- Bernhardt, Hans Hermann, 1920-1959.
- Hoffman, Richard C.
Subjects
- Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.
- Jews--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Germany.
- Jews--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Diplomas.
- Scrapbooks.
- Photographs.
- Certificates.
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Affidavits.